I picked the worst week to start this.

SuperheroSadie

I'm usually on medication for my ADHD, and those meds make me basically not at all hungry all day long. If I eat, it's out of compulsion or desire, not actual hunger. It's well-known in the ADHD world that going off of said meds makes you gain weight because you suddenly feel hunger again and crave the weirdest things.

Well, I've been rationing out my meds for the days I 'need them' (should be every day, but such is life) this week because my doctors office is dragging their feet about getting me new prescriptions and since it's a Schedule II controlled substance I have to have a physical prescription for one month at a time or I can't have it.

So today, yesterday, and Saturday were 'no med' days AND I tried starting to calorie count to the tune of 1350 a day.

I've never been more hungry in my life, I've never craved shrimp with alfredo pasta (?!) more in my life, and I have like 300 calories left for today. It's not even dinner time.

Excuse me while I go home and curl up on my couch and feel like a grumpy, hungry, failure.

/rant

tinkerbellang83

Perhaps try maintenance calories on your "no med days" a couple of days at maintenance are not going to do any harm in the long run and might help keep you on the right side of hangry.

Alatariel75

Would something like the 5:2 plan work? Eating at maintenance on non-med days, then "fasting" on 500 cal days on the days you have meds?

SuperheroSadie

I've considered maintenance, but that feels like a sad, sad way to start out my attempt at losing the last 20! Haha. I might just have to do that though, at least for today. Hopefully this is only until Friday. Might be until the 28th, though. Who knows.

I know the 5:2 plan wouldn't work with me, I wouldn't be able to stick to the 500. I get hangry if I don't have breakfast, sick in the afternoons if I don't have at least 300ish cals around lunchtime (the meds raise my resting heart rate and metabolism and yay side effects) and then that would leave me to sit and stare resentfully at my s/o while he ate dinner ahaha. He'd hate it as much as I would.

COGypsy

I'm on ADHD meds too and when I'm not taking them for some reason, I usually just go up to maintenance for that time period. I figure it's a losing battle with the hunger and maintenance is a gazillion and twelve times better than the free-for-all that I could be indulging in. It's a pain and a little demoralizing when you're trying so hard the rest of the time to lose, but at least it's damage control.

I am glad to hear that I'm not the only one that dies (or kills, lol) without breakfast and gets actually sick without food in the afternoon. I thought I was just weird

DebLaBounty

My pharmacy sometimes dispenses three to five pills to tide me over when the doctor’s office doesn’t get the prescription in on time. Try asking them for that. When the prescription comes in, they dispense the month’s supply minus the three to five pills they gave me. They also did that when my son’s ADHD meds were running out.

tinkerbellang83

SuperheroSadie wrote: »

I've considered maintenance, but that feels like a sad, sad way to start out my attempt at losing the last 20! Haha. I might just have to do that though, at least for today. Hopefully this is only until Friday. Might be until the 28th, though. Who knows.

I know the 5:2 plan wouldn't work with me, I wouldn't be able to stick to the 500. I get hangry if I don't have breakfast, sick in the afternoons if I don't have at least 300ish cals around lunchtime (the meds raise my resting heart rate and metabolism and yay side effects) and then that would leave me to sit and stare resentfully at my s/o while he ate dinner ahaha. He'd hate it as much as I would.

Is it really sad though if it makes you successful in the long term? Better to start out slower than planned than to end up eating more than you want to and having 25lbs to go instead of 20lbs?